The Airbender

Bending known at 1st level or Higher

At 1st level you know two 1st level bending moves of your choice from the Airbender move list. The moves known column of the table shows when you learn more moves. A move you choose must be of a level no higher than what is shown in the tables Chi Level column for your level.

Additionally, when you gain a level in this class, you can choose one of the Airbending moves you know and replace it with another move from the Airbender move list. Which also must be equal to or lower than your Chi Level listed in the table above.

Bending ability

Wisdom is your bending ability for your Airbender moves, so you use your wisdom whenever a move refers to your bending ability. In addition, you use your wisdom modifier when setting the saving throw DC for an Airbender move you use and when making an attack roll with one.

• Bending Save DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Wisdom modifier
• Bending Attack modifier = your proficiency bonus + your Wisdom Modifier

Disciplines

In your study with the monks, you have learned many special modifications to your normal airbending. At 2nd level, you gain two Disciplines of your choice, those disciplines are detailed at the end of the class description. When you gain certain Airbender levels, you gain additional disciplines of your choice as shown in the disciplines column of the class table. Additionally, when you gain a level in this class, you can choose a discipline you know and replace it with another discipline that you could learn at that level.

Bōjutsu

You have trained extensively with polearms as an extension of your body, using momentum and leverage to your advantage. For the purposes of calculating your attack and damage, you can use your dexterity modifier instead of strength. This does NOT add the finesse property to the weapon. When a heavy weapon is used with this feature, it loses the “Reach” property if it has one.

Ability Score Improvement

When you reach 4th, level, and again at 8th, 12th, 16th, and 19th level, you can increase one ability score of your choice by 2, or you can increase two ability scores of your choice by 1. You can’t increase an ability score above 20 using this feature.

Spirit of the wind

Starting at 11th level, you gain a fly speed equal to your walking speed, this gust only works in short bursts however, and you begin to fall if you end your turn in the air and nothing else is holding you aloft.

Chi Mastery

Path of the Spirits

At third level you learn how to summon a spirit animal companion to your side. (You can use find familiar as a ritual, it doesn’t count against your number of moves known) When you summon the spirit animal to your side, choose one of the following special forms: CatOwl, CaveHopper, FoxAntelope TurtleCrab, PygmyPuma, WingedLemur.

Additionally, when you take the attack action, you can forgo one of your own attacks to allow your familiar to make an attack of its own.

Misty Escape

Starting at 6th level, you can create a small cloud around you to obscure your movement and escape danger. When you take damage, you can use your reaction to become heavily obscured by the cloud and move with the wind up to 60 feet in any direction. This movement doesn’t provoke opportunity attacks. You remain heavily obscured until the start of your next turn or until you attack or use a bending move. You can’t use this feature again until you complete a short or long rest.

Piercing Winds

At level 10, whenever you use a bending move that affects a single target, that move can affect an additional target within 20 feet of the original target.

Eye of the Storm

Starting at 14th level, your fall breeze feature becomes a constant squall. You can keep a strong wind whipping around you in a 10 ft radius at your command. When any creature enters within 10 feet of you for the first time on a turn, you can choose to use your reaction to have that creature roll a strength saving throw vs your save DC. If that creature fails the saving throw, you can choose to either knock the creature prone or push them back 10 feet.

Disciplines

Cutting Wind (Prerequisite: Gust cantrip): When you use Gust, deal 1d6 + your wisdom modifier slashing damage on a failed save. This damage increases to 2d6 at 5th level, 3d6 at 11th level, and 4d6 at 17th level.

Harrying Gust (Prerequisite: Gust cantrip): On a failed save, instead of pushing the target 5 feet, you can either push the target 10 feet, or knock them prone.

Disarming Gale (Prerequisite: Gust cantrip): On a failed save, instead of all other effects of Gust, you can choose to knock the weapon out of the creatures grasp and have it land up to 10 feet away.

Running Downwind (Prerequisite: 5th Level): Your walking speed is increased by +10

Armor of Air: You can use Air Aegis on self at will without expending a Chi point or material components.

Updraft (Prerequisite: 9th level): You can use Levitate on yourself at will without expending a Chi point or material components.

Jet (Prerequisite: 5th level): You bend a jet of air from your feet when you leap. You can use Jump on yourself at will without expending a Chi point or material components.

Restricting Flow (Prerequisite: 15th level): You can use Hold Monster at will without expending a Chi point or material components.

Summon Air Spirit (Prerequisite: 9th level): You can use Conjure Elemental once using a Chi point. You can only summon an air elemental with this ability. You cannot use this ability again until you complete a long rest.

Extended Cyclone (Prerequisite: Cyclone Cantrip): You can now pull the target up to 20 feet with your Cyclone cantrip.

Shockwave (Prerequisite: Booming Blade Cantrip): If the target of your booming blade moves and activates the secondary effect. The target is also pushed 5 feet in the opposite direction it was going to move, in addition to the normal effects of booming blade.

High Pressure System (Prerequisite: 5th Level): You can use slow once using a Chi point. You can’t use this ability again until you complete a long rest.

Prevailing Winds (Prerequisite: Lift Cantrip): Triple the weight that your Lift cantrip can carry.

Spirit Bond (Prerequisite: Path of the Spirits Feature): You can communicate telepathically with your familiar and perceive through your familiar’s senses as long as you are on the same plane of existence. Additionally, while perceiving through your familiar’s senses, you can also speak through your familiar in your own voice, even if your familiar is normally incapable of speech.

Colors of the wind (Prerequisite: 15th Level): You can see all the colors of the wind. The winds show you the true form of any shapechanger or creature concealed by illusion or transmutation magic while the creature is within 30 feet of you and within line of sight.

Dread Winds: As a bonus action, you can conjure a cyclone of wind around you. The cyclone grants you advantage on Charisma (Intimidation) checks but disadvantage on all other Charisma checks. You can dismiss the cyclone with another bonus action.

Improved Bō (Prerequisite: 5th level): After meditating with your weapon using your Path of the Bō feature, it becomes a +1 magical weapon until your bond with the weapon is broken. This doesn’t affect already magical weapons.

Superior Bō (Prerequisite: 9th level): After meditating with your weapon using your Path of the Bō feature, it becomes a +2 magical weapon until your bond with the weapon is broken. This doesn’t affect already magical weapons.

Airbender Bending List

Part 2

Re-flavored Bending Moves

Immobilize Person

2nd-Level Airbending

• Casting Time: 1 Action
• Range: 60 ft
• Components: V, S
• Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute

Choose a humanoid that you can see within range. The target is enveloped in a constricting cyclone and must succeed on a Strength saving throw or be paralyzed for the duration. At the end of each of its turns, the target can make another Strength saving throw. On a success, the bending move on the target ends.

At Higher Levels. When you use this bending move using at a Chi level of 3rd level or higher, you can target one additional humanoid for each Chi level above 2nd. The humanoids must be within 30 feet of each other when you target them.

Slow

3rd-Level Airbending

• Casting Time: 1 Action
• Range: 120 Ft
• Components: V, S
• Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute.

You conjure strong winds to push against every movement of up to six creatures of your choice in a 40-foot cube within range. Each target must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw or be affected by this bending move for the duration.

An affected target's speed is halved, it takes a −2 penalty to AC and Dexterity saving throws, and it can't use reactions. On its turn, it can use either an action or a bonus action, not both. Regardless of the creature's abilities or magic items, it can't make more than one melee or ranged attack on its turn.

If the creature attempts to use a bending move with a casting time of 1 action, roll a d20. On an 11 or higher, the bending move doesn't take effect until the creature's next turn, and the creature must use its action on that turn to complete the bending move. If it can't, the resources used for bending move are wasted.

A creature affected by this bending move makes another Dexterity saving throw at the end of its turn. On a successful save, the effect ends for it..

Spirit Message

3rd-Level Airbending

• Casting Time: 1 Action
• Range: Self
• Components: V, S
• Duration: 1 Round

You ask the spirits to deliver a short message of twenty-five words or less to a creature with which you are familiar. The the spirits deliver the message to the creatures thoughts, the creature recognizes you as the sender if it knows you, and can answer in a like manner immediately. The bending move enables creatures with Intelligence scores of at least 1 to understand the meaning of your message.

You can send the message across any distance and even to other planes of existence, but if the target is on a different plane than you, there is a 5 percent chance that the message doesn't arrive.

Storm Sphere

4th-Level Airbending

• Casting Time: 1 Action
• Range: 150 ft
• Components: V, S
• Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute

A 20-foot-radius sphere of whirling air springs into existence centered on a point you choose within range. The sphere remains for the bending move’s duration. Each creature in the sphere when it appears or that ends its turn there must succeed on a Strength saving throw or take 2d6 bludgeoning damage. The sphere’s space is difficult terrain.

Until the bending move ends, you can use a bonus action on each of your turns to cause a tendril of circling wind to leap from the center of the sphere toward one creature you choose within 60 feet of the center. Make a ranged bending attack. You have advantage on the attack roll if the target is in the sphere. On a hit, the target takes 4d6 bludgeoning damage.

Creatures within 30 feet of the sphere have disadvantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks made to listen.

At Higher Levels. When you use this bending move at a chi level of 5th level or higher, the damage increases for each of its effects by 1d6 for each chi level above 4th.

Confusion

4th-Level Airbending

• Casting Time: 1 Action
• Range: 90 ft
• Components: V, S
• Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute

Whipping winds, dust, and deafening noise assault the creatures senses, provoking uncontrolled action. Each creature in a 10-foot-radius sphere centered on a point you choose within range must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw when you use this bending move or be affected by it.

An affected target can't take reactions and must roll a d10 at the start of each of its turns to determine its behavior for that turn.:

At the end of each of its turns, an affected target can make a Wisdom saving throw. If it succeeds, this effect ends for that target.

At Higher Levels. When you use this bending move at a chi level of 5th level or higher, the radius of the sphere increases by 5 feet for each chi level above 4th.

Create Vacuum

5th-Level Airbending

• Casting Time: 1 Action
• Range: 120 Ft
• Components: V, S
• Duration: Concentration, up to 10 minutes

You create a powerful vacuum in a 20-foot-radius sphere, centered on a point you choose within range. The vacuum spreads around corners. It lasts for the duration or until strong wind fills the area with air, ending the bending move.

When a creature enters the vacuum's area for the first time on a turn or starts its turn there, that creature must make a Constitution saving throw. The creature takes 5d8 bludgeoning damage on a failed save from the air being ripped from its lungs, or half as much damage on a successful one. Creatures are affected even if they hold their breath or don't need to breathe.

You can use a bonus action to move the vacuum 10 feet in any direction.

Greater Spirit Step

5th-Level Airbending

• Casting Time: 1 Action
• Range: Self
• Components: V, S
• Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute

You briefly step through the spirit world and reappear up to 60 feet from your original location in an unoccupied space that you can see. On each of your turns before the bending move ends, you can use a bonus action to step through the spirit world in this way again.

Vortex

5th-level Airbending

• Casting Time: 1 Action
• Range: 120 ft
• Components: V, S
• Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute

A swirling disk of air, 10-foot-tall and 60 feet wide appears, centered on a point you can see within range. Until the bending move ends, that area is difficult terrain, and any creature that starts its turn there must succeed on a Strength saving throw or take 6d6 bludgeoning damage and be pulled 10 feet toward the center..

Major Lift

5th-level Airbending

• Casting Time: 1 Action
• Range: 60 ft
• Components: V, S
• Duration: Concentration, up to 10 minutes

You gain the ability to move or manipulate creatures or objects by controlling strong gusts of wind. When you use this bending move, and as your action each round for the duration, you can exert the force of a gust on one creature or object that you can see within range, causing the appropriate effect below. You can affect the same target round after round, or choose a new one at any time. If you switch targets, the prior target is no longer affected by this bending move.

Creature. You can try to move a Huge or smaller creature. Make an ability check with your Bending ability contested by the creature's Strength check. If you win the contest, you move the creature up to 30 feet in any direction, including upward but not beyond the range of this bending move. Until the end of your next turn, the creature is restrained by your cyclonic winds. A creature lifted upward is suspended in mid-air.

On subsequent rounds, you can use your action to attempt to maintain your grip on the creature by repeating the contest.

Object. You can try to move an object that weighs up to 1,000 pounds. If the object isn't being worn or carried, you automatically move it up to 30 feet in any direction, but not beyond the range of this bending move.

If the object is worn or carried by a creature, you must make an ability check with your bending ability contested by that creature's Strength check. If you succeed, you pull the object away from that creature and can move it up to 30 feet in any direction but not beyond the range of this bending move.

You can exert fine control on objects with your powerful control of air currents, such as manipulating a simple tool, opening a door or a container, stowing or retrieving an item from an open container, or pouring the contents from a vial.

Immobilize Monster

5th-Level Airbending

• Casting Time: 1 Action
• Range: 90 ft
• Components: V, S
• Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute

Powerful cyclonic winds encircle a creature that you can see within range. The target must succeed on a Strength saving throw or be paralyzed for the duration. At the end of each of its turns, the target can make another Strength saving throw. On a success, the target escapes the effect of the bending move.

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